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maintaining a presence in washington, concerns of people around the country. our politics in the country have changed to where people recognize that you need a place to stand after 16 years in congress. i have that place in this country, so i plan to continue to stay active politically, through my website, a political action group, and the policy group, it will be composed of many people who have worked with me over the years, and i am still going to be around, and i am always grateful for a chance to be on democracy now!, and if people want to go to the website, they can be involved in our next efforts. >> congressman, this is jeremy scahill, and with you not being in the house anymore, there is basically not another democrat that fills the space that you did, particularly on some of our liberties issues -- on civil liberties issues. the last time i was in washington, we were talking about the bill after it became clear that president obama authorized the killing of the u.s. citizen who had not been charged with any crime and had not been indicted of any crim
maintaining a presence in washington, concerns of people around the country. our politics in the country have changed to where people recognize that you need a place to stand after 16 years in congress. i have that place in this country, so i plan to continue to stay active politically, through my website, a political action group, and the policy group, it will be composed of many people who have worked with me over the years, and i am still going to be around, and i am always grateful for a...
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let's talk about the significance of colorado and washington state. you have been covering these issues for some time. >> the main issue is people appear to want a change in drug policies, particularly as they apply to marijuana. if the federal government is sort of -- they have been standing pat. states and municipalities across the country have been making their own moves. >> during our election night coverage, i spoke with brian to send a, executive director of sensible colorado, and asked him how advocates there succeeded in becoming one of the first two u.s. states to approve regulating, taxing, and controlling marijuana similar to of all. this was his response. >> we just reached out to supporters. @we ran local ballot initiatives to build support. we got money from small and large binders. i think we tap into a vein of consciousness of passion or people realize that marijuana prohibition has been a colossal failure. just like alcohol prohibition britt coloradoan elite if you take it off the street and to the behind the counter, it will be harde
let's talk about the significance of colorado and washington state. you have been covering these issues for some time. >> the main issue is people appear to want a change in drug policies, particularly as they apply to marijuana. if the federal government is sort of -- they have been standing pat. states and municipalities across the country have been making their own moves. >> during our election night coverage, i spoke with brian to send a, executive director of sensible colorado,...
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washington state on the west coast is still in the process of counting votes. that only counted about 57% of their vote. that is a very democratic state. that is still piling on popular votes for obama. i do not want to sit and suggests that president obama is a perfect progressive. i don't actually charles krauthammer at all when he says barack obama is a man of the left. he may well have read many of the books of the left and that many people from the left, but my sense is that barack obama is a centrist and tended to be a very centrist presidents and troubling, frankly, on military issues as well as, frankly, the entitlement reform or he often has been too soft. what i want to emphasize is this president went before the american people and the election was framed very much as a referendum on austerity, on cuts to medicare, medicaid and social security, to a real radical reshaping of the country as pressured by an outlined by paul ryan. the important thing to understand is the american people understood that choice, and they voted for barack obama. they also
washington state on the west coast is still in the process of counting votes. that only counted about 57% of their vote. that is a very democratic state. that is still piling on popular votes for obama. i do not want to sit and suggests that president obama is a perfect progressive. i don't actually charles krauthammer at all when he says barack obama is a man of the left. he may well have read many of the books of the left and that many people from the left, but my sense is that barack obama...
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by the way, i'll have a briefing in washington on divorce 16 on the drone policies. we will be bringing in some of the top people in the world who have had something to say about this. they could be considered experts on civil liberties and other matters. but our country is changing. think about this. drones are being offered and used domestically. how long is it before some loca@ police department uses a drum to intercept and kill a suspect? and when that becomes commonplace. it is happening now overseas. we're committing acts of war and other countries without congress's knowledge or consent. we have a problem here. no matter who wins here, we have a problem. >> that is outgoing congressmember dennis kucinich of cleveland, ohio. he lost in a challenge to marcy kaptur when there were redistricting. marcy kaptur won last night in ohio, beating joe the plumber. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. when we come back, we will stay withealous of the naacp and journalist laura flanders, but we will talk about the ballot in
by the way, i'll have a briefing in washington on divorce 16 on the drone policies. we will be bringing in some of the top people in the world who have had something to say about this. they could be considered experts on civil liberties and other matters. but our country is changing. think about this. drones are being offered and used domestically. how long is it before some loca@ police department uses a drum to intercept and kill a suspect? and when that becomes commonplace. it is happening...
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he is now at fort lewis-mcchord in washington state. >> that is another issue. i am from a military family. i really mind that the events in afghanistan are on stage. we know almost no media reporting on afghanistan. our guys are out there fighting, and if they get killed, it is on page 17. it is not right for a country to be at war unless it is committed to the war. it is not right to have any public discussion of the mistakes that were made, the kind of command structures that were there. obviously, there are a lot of troops who never been through a lot of rotations. some of them probably have a lot of ptsd there are a lot of issues here which our country is not coming to grips with. >> when you talk about the surge in afghanistan failing, why? >> i believe it was doomed to fail because of the way there af petraeus and his colleagues perceived of a counterinsurgency program. they had this mantra, take, clear, cold, and build. they would take a village, clear it out taliban, hold it for a few months to reassure that the taliban was not coming back, you do not n
he is now at fort lewis-mcchord in washington state. >> that is another issue. i am from a military family. i really mind that the events in afghanistan are on stage. we know almost no media reporting on afghanistan. our guys are out there fighting, and if they get killed, it is on page 17. it is not right for a country to be at war unless it is committed to the war. it is not right to have any public discussion of the mistakes that were made, the kind of command structures that were...
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what is happening today in washington, d.c.? >> what people and not talking about the pledge while people are not talking about the sex life of general petraeus, they're talking about the budget showdown. one of the debate is called the campaign "fix the debt." a dco's from america's art as corporations. they're doing a major blitz, to train themselves as the reasonable ones because they're caor both raising revenues and cutting spending. if you look at the details of their tax plan, you see they're really just the trojan horse. they're pushing for the same old tax breaks for corporations they have been doing so for about a decade. we looked at one of them, which is they want a permanent exemption from u.s. taxes for all of their foreign earnings. it calculated the companies in this campaign stand to gain a windfall of as much as $134 billion if they get this corporate tax breaks through. people should be very wary of the big ad campaign about -- there are about to see in their newspapers across the country. this is just one mor
what is happening today in washington, d.c.? >> what people and not talking about the pledge while people are not talking about the sex life of general petraeus, they're talking about the budget showdown. one of the debate is called the campaign "fix the debt." a dco's from america's art as corporations. they're doing a major blitz, to train themselves as the reasonable ones because they're caor both raising revenues and cutting spending. if you look at the details of their tax...
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. >> responding at a news conference in washington, president obama defended rice and issued a challenge to her detractors. >> senator mccain and senator gramm and others want to go after someone, they should go after me. and i'm happy to have that discussion with them. but for them to go after the u.n. ambassador who had nothing to do with benghazi? and was simply making a presentation based on intelligence she had received? to besmirch her reputation? that is outrageous. >> democratic congressmember nancy pelosi has announced plans to stay on as house minority leader through the 2014 midterm elections. she disclosed the news as she stood with a group of incoming female members of congress. look russert asked if it prohibited the democratic party from grooming a new generation of leaders. >> you say your decision to stay on prohibits the party from having a younger leadership and hurts the party in the long term -- what is your response? >> discrimination. >> next! next! >> wow. >> you have always asked that question, except to match mcconnell. >> the now former republican candidate mit
. >> responding at a news conference in washington, president obama defended rice and issued a challenge to her detractors. >> senator mccain and senator gramm and others want to go after someone, they should go after me. and i'm happy to have that discussion with them. but for them to go after the u.n. ambassador who had nothing to do with benghazi? and was simply making a presentation based on intelligence she had received? to besmirch her reputation? that is outrageous. >>...
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there are casualties, but we do not know the number yet. >> i'm looking at a piece in "the washington post" that talks about the killing of 11-month- old son of bbc journalist jihad misharawi. not only was his little baby killed, but the israeli round hit his four-room house, killing his sister-in-law, wounding his brother. according to bbc middle east bureau chief, who was with him in gaza, he said -- we're all one team in gaza. after spending a few hours with his grieving colleagues he wrote -- question asked here is, it is reckoned to a man riding on a moving motorbike, as they did last month, how did jihad misharawi's son get killed? i want to turn as well to gershon baskin, the initiator of the secret talks between israel and hamas for the release of is really soldier gilead shalit. gershon baskin, can you talk about the assassination of the military had of hamas and the significance of this as reported in ha'aretz? what jabari received just before he was assassinated? >> to bari as a leader of the military wing of hamas, was the person who was called on by the egyptians and his
there are casualties, but we do not know the number yet. >> i'm looking at a piece in "the washington post" that talks about the killing of 11-month- old son of bbc journalist jihad misharawi. not only was his little baby killed, but the israeli round hit his four-room house, killing his sister-in-law, wounding his brother. according to bbc middle east bureau chief, who was with him in gaza, he said -- we're all one team in gaza. after spending a few hours with his grieving...
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poussaint: united defense's public efforts were orchestrated by power washington pr firm powell tate. they spearheaded the campaign of the crusader industrial alliance, who stood to lose billions if crusader was cancelled. the alliance paid for an ad campaign and a slick web site which offered talking points, even videos, touting crusader's virtues. it's a campaign, it's just like a political campaign, it's run the same way and some of the same tactics apply and it's very high-energy. this is a very sophisticated, broad-based, well-funded attempt to essentially overturn the secretary of defense's decision to kill the crusader program. poussaint: meanwhile, united defense's paid lobbyists were on the job on capitol hill, targeting members whose constituents had a stake in the fight. and lobbyists can be expensive. for hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars, you can either get a government contract for billions of dollars or get a tax break that may be worth hundreds or millions or billions of dollars -- i mean, it's a relatively small investment. poussaint: but if it seems that c
poussaint: united defense's public efforts were orchestrated by power washington pr firm powell tate. they spearheaded the campaign of the crusader industrial alliance, who stood to lose billions if crusader was cancelled. the alliance paid for an ad campaign and a slick web site which offered talking points, even videos, touting crusader's virtues. it's a campaign, it's just like a political campaign, it's run the same way and some of the same tactics apply and it's very high-energy. this is a...